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Less Variety

Posted in Anne Thompson, Variety, blogs, film criticism on Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 12:51 am | Leave a Comment »

Variety just laid off the one columnist of theirs I read (online) religiously, Anne Thompson. Anne will do fine. Variety, I’m not so sure. Seems like nose cut off to spite face. Old media seems to have enough challenges, without doing things like this to hasten their own demise… Good luck, Anne. I’ll link to [...]

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Another bit of empirical proof that Carr’s “The Big Switch” is right: Major Film Critic Laid Off

Posted in Anne Thompson, Nicholas Carr, Variety, Web 2.0, World Wide Computer, cinema, cloud computing, crowd sourcing, film criticism, long tail, open sourcing, wisdom of crowds on Friday, 28 March 2008, 10:37 am | 2 Comments »

Ok. So the single book I brought with me to India last week was Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch, which I wrote about 3 weeks ago and now apparently is high on the WSJ Business bestseller list (was high? Oddly, I can’t find it listed there today, so perhaps it just had a hot-selling week. [...]

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